And so the iOS-ification of Mac OS X continues. Apple has just announced that all applications submitted to the Mac App Store have to use sandboxing by March 2012. While this has obvious security advantages, the concerns are numerous - especially since Apple's current sandboxing implementation and associated rules makes a whole lot of applications impossible.

No I didn't read the entire article; it's a big rant with a small amount of useful content. The title and introduction are still misleading; it should be clear in one of these instances that this is not an introduction of the sandboxing requirement. This has been set in motion for a few months now and it's just getting an extension. You mention it a good 7 paragraphs into the article. Most people will probably skip it, it's just bad journalism.

Thom, your usual overreacting to critics is severely harming your reputation. I suggest you cool down a little and try more gentle replies in the future. If you can't respect your readers, your readers won't respect you.

Just a comment; if what you wanted to say was "thanks" in Spanish, it is spelled "Gracias", with "c" instead of "ç". The "c con cedilla" ("ç") does not belong to the Spanish alphabet though "c" represents the same phonemes that "ç" when written with "e" or "i". In Spanish the "ç" has been substituted by "z" when used with a, o and u and by "c" when used with e and i.

Whatever, if you tried to say "thanks" in other language than Spanish, then forget my pedantic comment

Thanks for the clarification - I don't actually speak Spanish (I'm more Germanic-language oriented), so I don't know any of this stuff. I can understand French and Italian pretty well, but Spanish has always been way more difficult, for some reason .